Game apparatus.



N0.'802,488. PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905. J. M. BABBITT 61; A. G. RUMPELH GAME APPARAIITUSu APPLICATION FILED SEPT' 28, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFOE.

JOHN M. BABBITT, OF RENSSELAER, MISSOURI, AND ANTON O.

RUMPEL, OF MILWAUKEE, VVISOONSIN; SAID BABBITT AS- SIGNOR TO SAID RU'MPEL.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Be it known that we, JOHN M. BABBITT, a resident of Rensselaer, in the county of Halls and State of Missouri, and ANTON O. RUMPEL, a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention has for its object to provide simple economical pocket attachments for game boards and tables, said invention consisting in a curved and beveled or inclined plate having hook-terminals and a shield, for which said terminals of the plate are provided with seats, as is hereinafter more particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a sectional view (indicated by lines 1 1 in Fig. 2) and illustrates a fragment of a game board or table and a pocket attachment in accordance with our invention, the attachment being partly broken away; and Fig. 2, a plan View of the attachment on said fragment of board or table.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a round corner fragment of a game board or table, and B upper guard-rail boundaries of the same. Set on the game board or table is a segmental plate G, that is flat on the bottom and beveled or inclined on the top to provide for an upward outward slope from the surface of said board or table, to which it is attached by hook-terminals b, that straddle the guardrail, and these terminals are provided with outer vertical recesses c, in which an upwardly projecting shield D is seated.

The plate O and its hook-terminals may be molded from any suitable material, or the device may be made from sheet metal by means of suitable dies, and the shield may be of stiif or flexible material. The guardrail and the plate combine to form a pocket, and the shield prevents balls shot into the pocket from bounding over said guard-rail.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An attachment for a game board or table provided with an upper guard-rail boundary, said attachment consisting of a segmental plate having a flat bottom, an upwardly outwardly inclined top and hook-terminals, these terminals being designed to fit loose on the guardrail of said game board or table.

2. An attachment for a game board or table provided with an upper guard-rail boundary, said attachment consisting of a segmental plate having a fiat bottom, an upwardly outwardly inclined top and hook-terminals provided with vertical recesses, these terminals being designed to fit loose on the guard-rail of said game board or table, their recesses being for the reception of a detachable upwardly-pro jecting shield.

3. A game board or table provided with an upper guardrail boundary, a flat-bottomed segmental plate having an upwardly outwardly inclined top and vertically-recessed hook-terminals that fit loose on said guardrail, and a shield supported in the recesses of the said hook-terminals of the plate.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of W isconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

J. M. BABBITT. ANTON C. RUMPEL. Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT, E. W. HELLER. 

